Tech brings new opportunities, risks, and dilemmas. Could the combination of technology and cash bring transformative change and finally make aid more people-centered? What are the risks and what are the opportunities?Host: Karen PeacheyGuests:

Series 2 - Episode - 5-Is Large-scale Cash Compatible with Locally Led Response?

Dec 7th, 2023 22m 54s

This episode challenges the idea that locally led response and large-scale CVA are incompatible. We explore the myths around local actors and the barriers to further progress. Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Ahmed Ibrahim, Chris Hoffman, and Christi

Series 2 - Episode - 4-Can Cash Make the Humanitarian System More Accountable?

Dec 7th, 2023 25m

In this episode we explore accountability issues within the humanitarian system, their root causes and potential solutions. We ask if cash and voucher assistance has a part to play in improving accountability, and what that could look like. Hos

Series 2 - Episode - 3-Is Cash the Key to More People Centred Aid?

Dec 7th, 2023 25m 32s

What does people-centered aid look like in practice, particularly when we think about cash and voucher assistance? What makes people centred aid different or is just a new buzz phrase? Have we been here before? Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Innoce

Series 2 - Episode - 2-Cash – How Can We Unlock its Real Potential?

Dec 7th, 2023 26m 45s

If cash is going to reach its full potential and transform the humanitarian system, what changes need to happen first? Host: Karen PeacheyGuests: Meg Sattler and Innocent Tshilombo

Series 2 - Episode 1-Can Cash Change the Humanitarian System?

Dec 7th, 2023 24m 56s

Does cash have the potential to help transform the humanitarian system and become better at responding to the needs and preferences of people in crisis? Host: Karen PeacheyGuest: Christina Bennett

Las transferencias monetarias: alcanzando a las personas en movimiento en las Américas

Sep 29th, 2022 46m 21s

En este episodio exploramos junto a expertos en el tema, cuáles son los desafíos existentes, además de las oportunidades e innovaciones necesarias para que la implementación de los programas de transferencias monetarias (PTM) respondan a las ne

CVA: catching up with people on the move in the Americas

Sep 29th, 2022 36m 13s

In this episode we explore with experts the topic of humanitarian responses in contexts of human mobility. We discuss the challenges as well as the opportunities and innovations that exist when it comes toto effectively delivering recipient cen

Episode 7: How can we use cash and voucher assistance to support universal health goals?

Jun 28th, 2022 32m 11s

In episode 7, we discuss how health needs, and the provision of health services, in humanitarian response works and where using Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA) may help. What we know already is that CVA may be used for health outcomes but gi

Episode 6: Are we ready to use cash and voucher assistance to prepare for crises in Latin America and the Caribbean?

May 4th, 2022 20m 24s

According to UNOCHA, between 2000 and 2019, 152 million people in Latin America and Caribbean were affected by 1,200 disasters that impacted the region. Furthermore, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) recently

Episodio 6: ¿Estamos listos para usar las transferencias monetarias para prepararnos para las crisis en América Latina y el Caribe?

May 4th, 2022 33m 17s

En este sexto episodio de CashCast exploramos esta pregunta junto a expertos, con años de experiencia en la región, para analizar las potenciales oportunidades, los beneficios y desafíos de vincular la protección social y las transferencias mon

Ep. 5: A Short History of Cash and Voucher Assistance

Apr 15th, 2021 55m 43s

In this episode we take a look back over the evolution of cash and voucher assistance (CVA) and then leap forward to explore where it’s going next.15 years ago, the use of CVA was still seen as a fringe activity limited to a small number of sca

Ep. 4. How to link social protection and humanitarian CVA: What do we really know and where to start?

Sep 29th, 2020 31m 18s

In this episode of the CashCast, we explore how to Link Social Protection and Humanitarian Cash and Voucher Assistance. We recorded this episode following the release of the High-Level Briefing Paper on Linking Social Protection and Humanitaria

Ep. 3. What does the future of financial assistance mean for your work today?

Jul 7th, 2020 20m 55s

Last year CaLP published the Future of Financial Assistance report, laying out potential scenarios for humanitarian action in 2030. But in a rapidly changing environment, what does this mean for humanitarian actors right now? In the latest epis

Ep. 2. Is informed consent possible in humanitarian CVA?

Feb 4th, 2020 32m 12s

In this episode we tackle the issue of data responsibility in humanitarian cash and voucher assistance (CVA), exploring questions around informed consent, legitimate interest, ethics and regulations including GDPR. Featuring Amos Doornbos, Lind

Ep. 1. Will risk aversion hold us back from realising the potential of CVA?

Dec 3rd, 2019 35m 8s

On the first episode, we are in Amman, Jordan, joined by Nicholas Nichol, our MENA Regional Representative and Volker Schimmel, Senior Regional Cash-Based Interventions Coordinator for UNHCR who will help us answer the question: will risk avers

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